Humanism category: 419 books

When no one’s listening, it takes more than shouting louder to be heard … Street Spirit is a celebration of some of the most remarkable protests from around the world that have used humour, courage and creativity to bring about change. Among the many instances of imaginative defiance within, you'll...

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings....

La ciencia forma parte de nuestra compresión contemporánea del mundo y de nuestra esperanza en el futuro. Para algunos ha desplazado a la religión, y los creyentes deben afrontar los desafíos planteados por la ciencia. Sin embargo, pocos tienen un conocimiento científico directo, sino que la...

What does it mean to be human today? The answer to this question, which is as old as the human species itself, is becoming less and less certain. Current technological developments increasingly erode our traditional humanist reflexes: consciousness, emotion, language, intelligence, morality, humour,...

Explore the power of myth as it exploded from medieval Europe into the modern world In this fourth volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell's major work of comparative mythology — the pre-emimenent mythologist looks at the birth of the modern, individualistic mythology as it developed...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work. Its dazzling...

An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives. Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this...

(a5, 106 páginas) - Ao longo da história, a temática do amor tem sido difundida na cultura dos diferentes povos, em diferentes formas de expressão, sejam elas artísticas, literárias, científicas, míticas e/ou religiosas, por ser tida como parte da essência humana no que diz respeito à questão...

In Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Peter Mahon goes beyond recent theoretical approaches to 'the posthuman' to argue for a concrete posthumanism, which arises as humans, animals and technology become entangled, in science, society and culture. Concrete posthumanism is rooted in cutting-edge...

In this book, we aim to form a general idea about the Just Order and bring out the truth and try to demonstrate that the Islamic, scientific and humanly projects don’t consist of aerial, imaginary discourses and slogans. Thus, we are glad to give a chance to the people to make a contribution with...

The Count of Monte Cristo written by Alexandre Dumas.This book will tell you a story of unfortunated guy,Dantes a sailor who inherit the captain of Pharoah ship.

Explications – Les Héros du quotidien – No 615  L’immigrant devint l’ami.   Lewis a quitté son pays parce qu’on ne pouvait plus tolérer ses points de vue humanitaire. Sa vie et celle de sa famille étaient en danger, tout cela parce qu’il...

Explications – Les Héros du quotidien – No 584 – Le Bonheur malgré tout –   Un homme se sent coupable parce qu’il n’a pas réussi à empêcher sa jeune sœur à mettre fin à ses jours.   Il change. Il...

Explications – Les Héros du Quotidien – 597 – Au marché de l’Espoir – 31-03-16.   -Le Marchand Frédéric voit venir la famille de Tom avec un sourire. C’est un homme généreux et il choisit des familles à part...